The Fires of Edgarville

"The Fires of Edgarville is not really about solving the mystery of a serial arsonist.  It's not really about uncovering the truth behind old family secrets and lies. Or rather, it's about so much more. This is a mystery novel, yes, and a page turner, but one that engages authentically with a dishonorable part of our past, that conjures brilliantly the effects of dementia, that tackles unflinchingly the difficult terrain of families, prejudice, guilt, deception--all the while in fluid, singing prose.  I was spellbound."    
-- Molly Gloss, author of The Jump-Off Creek and The Hearts of Horses

“The Fires of Edgarville is a daring and enthralling novel with the power to surprise anyone who picks it up. Craig Joseph Danner takes a tiny Northwestern town and two unlikely protagonists -- a defamed Japanese-American doctor and an irascible senile woman -- and somehow turns out high drama. This novel is slender and fast-paced, but the story is rich and artfully woven with dazzling crescendos of action and original characters in search of elusive truths.”  
-- Jim Lynch, author of The Highest Tide and Border Song

 “Craig Danner has done it again. The Fires of Edgarville is a can't-stop-reading book. A story of mystery, betrayal, bigotry, sex, love, and forgiveness.  Books like this are the reason I read.”
-- Alison Clement, author of Pretty Is As Pretty Does and Twenty Questions

"How does Craig Danner know so much about the head and heart? In The Fires of Edgarville, he teaches us a great deal about both, and in the most dramatic, enticing and beautiful way. Danner matches the emotional wallop of Snow Falling on Cedars, and then some. Enjoy the ride, dear reader."  
-- Carl Lennertz, author of Cursed by a Happy Childhood

“The Fires of Edgarville is a fast-paced, often thrilling, and entirely enjoyable novel that adds strength to Mr. Danner's body of work. From adoption to dementia, internment camps to blazing house fires, his themes are timely, his insights eloquent, and his characters vibrant and alive.”
--Michael Gurian, Author of A Fine Young Man and The Miracle

“Filled with deft, page-turning prose, Danner’s latest novel shows how the past reverberates through the decades, and reminds us what we owe our families—and ourselves. “
--April Henry, author of Torched and Face of Betrayal

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